Design As Social Agent at ICA on Saturday

Design As Social Agent
ICA Boston (100 Northern Ave)
Saturday, April 4
10 am - 5 pm
$25 per talk ($15 ICA and AIGA members, seniors, and students)
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Tomorrow, the ICA presents a design day jam-packed with talks and gallery tours addressing questions of plagiarism, reappropriation, design trends, and social agency. How can what we design affect who we are, how we interact with others, and how we produce social change? This series of events attempts to address this and other, related, inquiries about the relationship between the aesthetic and the cultural. The day revolves around Shepard Fairey's work to some extent, but also considers creative issues from a broader perspective.

Scheduled talks include "Elegant Dissent and Anarchy," "The Obama Effect: What Art Did for Advertising," "Something Borrowed, Something True," "Social Networking for Social Good: What Stickers, Facebook and Flickr do that Press and Advertising Don't" and more. Speakers range from Kevin Grady of Lemon magazine to representative from PIXNIT Productions to New York Times Book Review art director Nicholas Blechman. The day will also include fashion from The Good, the Bad & the Runway, a design project from students at the School of Fashion Design, as well as an author talk by Caleb Neelon, and a video box designed to let attendees voice their reactions to the day.

Bostonist will be in attendance, so look for us there! We hope the event will spark some new ideas and help us decide once and for all how we feel about Shepard Fairey: dastardly deviant, divine designer, or something in between?